When fiction could be fact—or may well be.

Up front, this comes from the Onion, so as a totality this can’t be true. But I’ll bet that its parts have happened somewhere, sometime:

Progressive Parents Refuse To Tell Child Its Sex
November 3, 2010
BERKELEY, CA—Citing a refusal to impose limiting social constructs on their offspring, parents Lucas Cady and Kat Loesel reported Monday they will not tell their 4-year-old, Quynn, whether the child is biologically male or female. “Who are Kat and I to say what sexual organs our kid possesses?” asked Loesel, who has dressed Quynn in dull gray smocks since birth and only allows the child to play with toy figures that have been neutered of any conventionally feminine or masculine characteristics. “We think it’s important our child’s frequent questions about girls and boys go unanswered so that Quynn can discover its true sex for itself.” The couple also said that parents should be supportive of children who decide they do not have human genitalia at all.

Non è vero, the Italians say, ma comunque ben trovato—if this isn’t true, it sure sounds true.